Leni Riefenstahl defending herself in a 1964 interview. English subs.

- The thumbnail for this video is the image discussed by Riefenstahl in the first part of this extract. Doubt has been cast on how far it matches up to her accounts.
- Doubt has also been cast on the real independence of her film company for the Olympic films: publishing.cdl...
- Her denials did not shut down the charge that she used Roma and Sinti inmates of the Salzburg Maxglan detention camp:
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[@dirtbag1793]

She was a great film maker and a great liar. She did in fact personally select Romani extras imprisoned in a concentration camp near the film location of 'Tiefland', as attested by survivors who witnessed her do just that. Even on the film shoot they were treated terribly, locked up when not filming without heat or adequate food. I admire her films and photographs as powerful images but will never admire her. Like Albrecht Speer, after the war she pretended she was just an artist who knew nothing about the extermination camps, treatment of Jews and other 'undesirables' and all the other crimes in plain view, like the millions of slave laborers working all over Germany. They knew exactly what was going on; that they never took responsibility for it is contemptible.

[@ancheno7167]

I agree with every one of your words. She is just defending herself and her (beautiful) work. Can anyone truly believe that the nazis did not check her movies before publishing? There you see she lies, in my opinion.

[@Bernd-m2o]

My point exactly. Yes, she was a very talented artist, but she was deeply entangled into the Nazi regime. That's why her career ended in 1945. Just like Veit Harlan's career ended with the nazi regime. He was also a great German film maker during the 1930s, but after he made the infamous antisemitic propaganda film "Jud Suess" his career was equally tainted beyond repair.

[@FortniteBlaster2]

The Polish Partisans (which is a war crime) were brutal, how do you even know she's lying about what she's saying?

[@Marvel66666]

Mick Jagger only accepted Leni Riefenstahl as photographer for a photo shoot with Bianca Jagger in London. She was also a consultant for the Rolling Stones stage shows. In one photo, Mick Jagger hugs Riefenstahl. ( Google ) Andy Warhol, David Bowie and George Lucas were also fascinated by Riefenstahl

[@ilovemovies725]

And so what? They are/ were no examples themselves...The idolatry!

[@andrewdeen1]

... lived to be 101 years old.

[@abelis644]

It's ok, if she committed crimes against humanity, I hope she's paying now. If not, I hope she rests quietly.

[@kimkon2171]

Dreadful life

[@seandobson499]

A lot longer than the millions of victims of the Nazi regime.

[@Ppeshku]

Made a name for herself in history, while kimkon will probably be something nobody remembers. There are important people and lesser ones. Clearly her 101 old lifespan was filled with interesting things.

[@mrelephant2283]

@@Ppeshku I've never willingly worked with a totalitarian regime to produce propaganda, so damn guess I'm taking Ws there despite my "uninteresting" life

[@Airman1121]

All things being equal, she was a revolutionary filmmaker. Aerials, etc.

[@GRice999]

But all other things aren't equal.

[@silvasousa6467]

Uma das maiores cineastas do mundo.

[@leontinemccain5170]

Isn't funny how she thinks that " I made this propagandist bullshit without being forced by Nazis but out of my own free will" is a valid defense that makes her look better.

[@leontinemccain5170]

@maulfickmanfred1796 I'd rather achieve nothing in life than being actively compliant in one of the biggest ethnic cleansings in human history.... And if you don't understand that, there's something seriously wrong with you

[@regiment6541]

@@dice234in other words y’all accomplished ZERO 🍩

[@decimustv4257]

@@regiment6541 In other words you are a nazi sympathiser.

[@st0a]

​@@jaranowskaNot really.

[@RH-cv1rg]

@maulfickmanfred1796 Living a free life and not subjugating others to oppression is my achievement.

[@dejabu24]

She made one of the greatest films about the Olympics ever , a great artist with incredible talent

[@vitoscaletta3886]

One of the best filmmakers ever lived!

[@msbull100]

Russian Soloviev and Simonyan would be talk this exactly way. "We didntt support that we didnt knew anything we were misleaded.."

[@Lisa1108-Chess]

wie kann man nur so eine Frau verehren...

[@AlfredoDutti]

Leni, we will always remember you

[@satansalley6526]

Who will?

[@AlfredoDutti]

@@satansalley6526 we all

[@herr_crustovsky]

@@satansalley6526 film enthusiasts, history buffs, political analysts, academics, photography specialists, people who like pretty women, etc.

[@avidreader70]

@@satansalley6526 Nazis.

[@GRice999]

@@AlfredoDutti History will--but not for the reasons you think.

[@Interlocutor67]

Great woman and filmmaker.

[@ancheno7167]

@@Interlocutor67 why great woman?

[@Interlocutor67]

@@ancheno7167 , extremely talented individual who created cinematic masterpieces. The political content is irrelevant as far as the artistic product is concerned. The same can be said about Sergei Eisenstein.

[@ancheno7167]

@@Interlocutor67 great artist then. Great filmmaker. Even great photographer. But in order to be a great person (man or woman) you need to be consistently a good person in your life. So it's not irrelevant. Michael Jackson great musician and dancer, but as a person? Bill Cosby great comedian and actor, but. The same for Leni R. Her job will be remembered because it's superb, even if she was a despicable nazi.

[@ancheno7167]

@@Interlocutor67 so great artist or filmmaker. She wasn't so great as a person, cause she was a nazi

[@JeanAlesiagain3]

Triumph of the Will was a good film. Nothing wrong with it. The film itself has no relation to the atrocities that happened. Much like Bill Cosby shows have no relation to his raping behavior

[@3BK235Y]

I think you are right.

[@GRice999]

Then again, Cosby didn't make a TV show about his raping behavior. And his other actors and production crew didn't know what he was up to. Leni knew what she was doing, even if she didn't know to what extent AH and the other Nazis were evil. Night of the Long Knives had already happened and everyone knew something about it. She should have known she was on the wrong side of humanity.

[@MarkusSchunzel-p2u]

In denial

[@wn6694]

Narcissistic woman

[@Luftwaffengel]

Why?

[@wn6694]

@@Luftwaffengel Accepting doing the Nazi propaganda for the good of her own career. Knowing bloody well Jews were being slaughtered.

[@ramakrishnasuresh4703]

Brilliant film maker with awesome techniques of the day. Triumph of will is an excellent output and there is no reason for her to be coy at admitting it. Cant understand why she was being reviled so much when people like Fritz Hippler who made such toxic films that compared Jews to rats got away scot free. Same is the case with the makers of another movie another movie 'Jude Suss'. Society has been unkind to her.

[@BabitaSingh-gy3iy]

When they recce someone there, they just diligently accuse that person for that. No matter what would have been the reality and the impacts it laid on that person afterwards. It is not actually the society, but a specific cluster that has fed these preachings in the minds of the rest of social groups. Now, we need to acknowledge what her achievements were and stop being a biased dolt of that dire extent.

[@luiz.nazario]

Hippler bad, Leni good, Hitler bad, Goebbels good?

[@petitnicollas]

Liar, liar. Great filmaker tho

[@ashleywebb2736]

Say what you w8ll about mr H, he gave women directors a chance.

[@satansalley6526]

What an odd way to look at genocidal maniac.

[@joewhitehead3]

She was a woman given a great opportunity by a very powerful man. It’s not like she coulda said no

[@junkhog5036]

pure unapolgetic evil

[@herr_crustovsky]

no

[@HerrStaale]

So many ignats wannabee judges here.. They judge a time they don't understand.

[@martymethuselah]

she lived a long time that is testament of god's will

[@kotnapromke]

Бога нет.

[@martymethuselah]

@@kotnapromke who is god

[@kotnapromke]

@@martymethuselah Инженеры. Создатели Чужих.)

[@martymethuselah]

@@kotnapromke first nations.. creator of long calendar ..true type O rh negative blood and earth geo engineering you live on earth sunshine god is gravitas and gravity and time immemorial hang on to your hat though.. the weather is getting alienated gravity may not hold us down enough any more..

[@kotnapromke]

@@martymethuselah Чувак, ты не умеешь понимать сарказм.

[@46FreddieMercury91]

Everything else aside, she was a good looking woman

[@keithsmd1948]

Not as good-looking as she thought she was. At one point Jodie Foster was considering making a movie about her, but she said Foster wasn’t beautiful enough to play her. She suggested Sharon Stone. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl Steven Bach

[@3BK235Y]

Especially when she was young, but even at this age she's still beautiful.

[@GRice999]

Indeed. And she demonstrated that beauty is only skin deep.

[@tresojos]

@@GRice999 You made so many comments on here and all of them show that you are such a bitter person against a filmmaker who didn't do you any wrong. So, so bitter

[@GRice999]

@@tresojos I'm not bitter. And you're correct, she didn't do ME any wrong. But she's a public figure and fair game, especially since she did the world wrong by using her talents to glorify the NAZIs as part of their propaganda machine. You're attacking the messenger and not the message. Seems like you're taking it personal for some reason. Ask yourself why?

[@DaPeePeePooPooCheck]

She pioneered propaganda techniques that sent the whole world into the abyss but I find it difficult to believe that she does not realise how bad it looks when she’s reading those cue cards… I think she’s lying

[@imaginarium851]

She is absolutely lying. She knew what she was doing. You can literally see she orchestrated the opening motorcade in Triumph of the Will. She even edited that movie and filled it with pathos. She didn’t just set up a camera and film it. She did it because it was good for her career then refused to stand by it when it didn’t age well. She was a coward and a liar who knew what she was doing.

[@Bartron_Flat_Earth]

@kaimckenzie2095 lol Stop believing in the zionist lies

[@THEBIGGAME683]

Well, its a quest of achiving your dreams, I'd probably do the same thing, like comon, having access on equipments regarding on filmmaking is like ecstasy for filmakers, wether she did bad things or not, one thing for sure, she did it for her dreams

[@tresojos]

@@imaginarium851 Who knew what she was doing? Yes she made great films during her lifetime

[@Briman2052]

@@imaginarium851 What exactly are you saying she "lied" about?

[@jacobshorter7204]

Well there you have it guys she said, “there’s nothing to see here and it’s all in our imaginations.”

[@kennarajora6532]

People in the comments either despise or absolutely love this woman it seems.

[@sergiowithlasers]

I mean there's only two possible views of what nazism means. There's no gray area for mass murder and dictatorship...

[@herr_crustovsky]

Rather be like that than be mediocre

[@joewhitehead3]

@@sergiowithlasersBut she had nothing to do with any of that. She just filmed the 1936 Olympics. That’s it

[@GRice999]

@@joewhitehead3 You never heard of Triumph of the Will?

[@tresojos]

@@GRice999 Beautiful film, so what?

[@hallerd]

looks exactly like a trumper

[@indauroleal7953]

This sounds like lots of BS! Reminds me of Kellyanne Conway!

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

Most Germans never saw triumph of the Will

[@luiz.nazario]

At the time, 20,000,000 Germans saw.

[@kennarajora6532]

@@luiz.nazario Technically he's correct. Germany had a population of 60 million or so people back then, so roughly 2/3rd of Germans never saw it.

[@luiz.nazario]

@@kennarajora6532 Poor rethoric fallacy. The majority maybe never saw any of all movies! But 20 million German moviegoers saw Triumph of the Will, one of the most seen German movie after The Jew Suss.

[@vanlendl1]

@@luiz.nazario First, how do you know that number?

[@luiz.nazario]

@@vanlendl1 I read in a book of an especialist in Leni. If I find it I send to you.

[@MarkusSchunzel-p2u]

Verfolgte Unschuld

[@msbull100]

For sure she was convinced nazy else he didnt made the Olimpia movie.

[@jinga2668]

Germany is the biggest lied about story in history.

[@GRice999]

And after the war she could have made an anti-Nazi film, or wrote a book about it.

[@msbull100]

@@GRice999 really ?

[@GRice999]

@@msbull100 No, not if she was as you stated. She had almost 60 years to demonstrate she wasn't a Nazi at heart but failed to do so. Her actions (or lack thereof) speak louder than her denials or excuses.

[@msbull100]

@@GRice999 so you believe she was really misleaded ?

[@junkhog5036]

RACIST

[@SniaViscosaToxSwag]

Holobunga

[@goodwifelucy5602]

2 Nd link doesn't appear to be working? Appalling that she continued to make money from the films even after the documentary evidence came to light.

[@louduva9849]

Cry about it.

[@Siegfried5846]

It is appalling that the antiwhites in Hollywood continue to make money from their films.

[@DC-en8vm]

What a great lady

[@satansalley6526]

Isn't she though?Quite simply wunderbar. PS USA USA USA

[@ilovemovies725]

If you like the teutonic kind. Very teutonic.

[@jeronym1866]

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